Illusion and the Referential Dilemma in Alfonso Parigi’s Engravings for the Court Opera, La Flora (1628)

Before the painted sipario (curtain) was drawn aside for the first performance of the opera La Flora, which Marco da Gagliano set to music for its 1628 performance in Florence’s Teatro Mediceo, political and mythological allusion had already been established in the minds of the distinguished invited...

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